stoical

Preposition: about

• pain: Cats and Dogs are often very stoical about dental pain.

Preposition: in

• face: Ch.11 ( p.130 ): Helen is stoical in the face of her mother's death.

Modifies a noun

• shrug: Or have we actually become conformed to our culture, accepted its view of time with a stoical shrug?
• fortitude: No doubt they will show the stoical fortitude that is the hallmark of their state and carry on eating.
• silence: A performance which achieves, in its stoical silence, more than many an hour of classical fretting of a Gielgud or Olivier.
• people: I loved Ethiopia, its beautiful countryside and brave, stoical people.

Modifying Another Word

• very: I hope he has years rather than months left, but he's being very stoical about the whole thing.
• quite: Mother Grimes is sad about her son, but admits he was a bad lot, and quite stoical about seeing herself home.
• remarkably: Many people are prepared to tolerate pain following surgery and some, particularly the elderly, can be remarkably stoical.
• so: Even aristocracy, I think, was not quite so stoical in the days when it was really strong.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: But his bona fide coccyx moment came a little later on, although he remained stoical in his agony.